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Accession Number | ART32366.028 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 24.4 cm x 33 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Sodersten, Emil |
Place made | New Guinea1 |
Date made | 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
Cookhouse, Markham Valley
Depicts two men preparing and cooking food under sail cloths, in a jungle clearing, with papaya and banana trees nearby. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at Sydney Technical College and in 1923 joined the firm of architects F R Hall & Prentice in Brisbane. By 1925 he had returned to Sydney and established his own practice and in the same year closed his office to prepare a set of drawings for the international competition to design a national war museum, the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra. During the 1930s, Sodersten designed residential buildings in Sydney and in 1942 enlisted in the RAAF, serving in New Guinea as a Flight Lieutenant with no. 13 Survey & Design Unit. He was demobilised in 1945.